{"id":2569,"date":"2005-09-11T15:12:41","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T15:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/juxtaposition-of-oddness.html"},"modified":"2005-09-11T15:12:41","modified_gmt":"2005-09-11T15:12:41","slug":"juxtaposition-of-oddness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/juxtaposition-of-oddness.html","title":{"rendered":"Juxtaposition of oddness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael is currently in FLA with friends<\/a> and told me this morning on the phone that if I’d been with him at Mass, I’d have "things to blog about for weeks."<\/p>\n

Not what you think, either.<\/p>\n

They decided to go to Mass at a parish near their hotel. Michael likes to go to Mass early, and this early Mass happened to be the Tridentine liturgy.<\/p>\n

His quick description from a boat crossing the St. John’s River (yeah, and here I am in The Fort with this event <\/a>the highlight of our day) was enough – the church was fairly full, but dead, absolute silent. A choir of sorts sang old pious hymns, but there was no congregational involvement in chant or responses of any kind (remember this was a quick call, so I’m not exactly sure what they were supposed to be doing.). The priest says "Dominus Vobiscum"….no response at all, and it seems one was expected. Etc.<\/p>\n

Then the homily. Forty minutes of increasing volume and emotion, beginning with a treatment of tragedy (9\/11, Katrina)  and God’s role ("Who would build a city in a bathtub?") , and then escalating (screaming<\/em> is the word he used) to the rhetorical question, "Well, and for President Bush, we all know how he was elected, don’t we?" a furious denunciation of the War in Iraq…forty minutes worth, all told.<\/p>\n

Whew. Wish I was there…or maybe not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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